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MARKET DATA
Fame Information Services has released its ReferencePoint Plus service for financial and energy market data for third parties such as software developers. The service was created in response to needs for outsourced data operations and systems as well as data delivery to existing software applications. ReferencePoint Plus combines Fame's market data with data integrity and validation services on an outsourced basis.
Traderforce has signed on to use RadianzNet, Radianz's financial extranet, for IP-network connectivity to its electronic market-data service. BNP Paribas, which already has a connection to the network, will be the first institution to be linked to Traderforce via RadianzNet.
CreditTrade has launched its new CreditTrade Insight Web-based data service. The CreditTrade Insight Web site provides access to all of CreditTrade's data, as well as tailored search, graphics and data download facilities. The service also includes a set of credit default swap indices and other analytical data. The CDS data includes over 700,000 price points with 1,500 CDS market quotes, trades and benchmark prices.
Money.net is using HyperFeed Market Data in conjunction with HyperFeed's Java SDK tool kit to provide streaming, real-time quotes to its subscriber base of retail and institutional investors. Money.net applications such as Screamer, Level II Viewer, ChartStream and Wireless/E-mail are compatible with, and populated by, HyperFeed Market Data. Customers have access to complete options chains, equities, indices and Nasdaq's SuperMontage data.
Standard & Poor's has launched a new version of its CreditWire real-time ratings research and information service available via the Bloomberg Professional service. The user interface gives clients ease of access to ratings news and information using market sector and sub-sector classifications. In addition, the new main menu is divided into sections to meet specific user needs. CreditWire Alerts now lets users receive e-mails about a particular type of rating change or research by sector, sub-sector, region or country.